US Crypto Trails EU, Asia as Senate Blocks Clarity Act
The Senate's failure leaves US crypto without a federal framework while MiCA-era Europe and Asian hubs compound their lead.
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The Senate's failure leaves US crypto without a federal framework while MiCA-era Europe and Asian hubs compound their lead.
The bill would turn an executive-policy framework into statute, but it does not start the 20-year clock or authorize new federal Bitcoin purchases.
The deal would connect institutional risk assessment with smart-contract security as banks, funds, stablecoins and DeFi protocols move further onchain.
SPGI is not a name TradFi allocators would expect to buy a crypto-native security firm. With 900+ audits and the dominant smart contract library under SPGI, onchain risk assessment gains a…
Coinbase Prime deposits are the standard precursor to OTC sales. Combined $285M into the venue's institutional books reads as positioning for distribution, not custody reshuffling.
The single-day figure is the headline, but the seven-day tally is the signal: $920M now out of spot BTC ETFs in a week, pointing to institutional de-risking rather than a one-day trim.
Credit ratings stop at the issuer. Buying the security firm behind $37T in token transfers gives S&P a way to price the next risk layer banks will face as tokenized money hits their books.
The first live U.S. regulatory path to onchain stock trading, opened by Atkins with statutory reach two days after the Senate's CLARITY Act failure.
For years the RWA sector has run tokenized equities in offshore venues and grey zones. The temporary SEC exemption now names a defined on-chain path.
A narrow carve-out, but the directional signal is the real story: the SEC is now issuing safe-harbour guidance for onchain venues rather than pursuing case-by-case action.
Huang's doubling call lands as the rest of the AI supply chain is still ramping to catch Nvidia's first-mover scale, framing the next cycle as another up-leg rather than a digestion year.
Two US exchanges and a major retail broker are now racing to bring crypto-style perpetual futures onto fully regulated rails, a structural bridge the rest of the derivatives industry will measure…
XRPL's addition to Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol puts XRP at the settlement layer of agent-to-agent commerce, where deterministic finality and native payment channels matter more than…
The proposed move puts smart-contract risk management closer to the market infrastructure institutional investors already rely on.
The call matters less than the framework: Grayscale's three-part checklist (structural trend, cycle stage, macro) now reads go on all three, which is the signal institutions will actually act on.
The hire hands DCG a credible public-market face for a Zcash miner that already prints 28% of network supply, with a clean Nasdaq exit at a $400M implied valuation.
The MPC pause leaves UK policy among the more restrictive of the major advanced economies, signalling the BoE is comfortable letting prior tightening work through services inflation before cutting…
The value sits in the venue-resolved read: how options took share of the book, where liquidity concentrated, and what the curve is pricing now. That is the structural layer behind every tape move.
Stablecoins have historically been a crypto-native affair. MoneyGram, Revolut and CACEIS jumping in this summer marks the category's clearest break from that origin story.
Seven Senate Democrats just signaled they want to keep bipartisan Clarity Act talks alive, but the 60-vote path now runs through presidential conflict-of-interest reform, not partisan math.